The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, January 07, 1938, Page Page Four, Image 4
On The
SPORTSIDE
By
George Zuckerman
From September To January To Enright To
Barrett
September 23-First appearaice of sportside; think colun is
mediocre and uniml)ortant until Professor Babcock writes letter to
the editor bawling me out for being conteml)uouls, and all I (lid was
to call Emory and Ilenry a bunch of inferiority complex minor
leaguers. ..Johnny Campbell. big apple cheer lea(er registers second
complalit against coiumn...two strikes. ..McCall :terien unde
feated as yet.
October 1-I lefen(l myself against Babcock's charges and re
member the title of a book I read and tell the learned professor that
"I Write As I Please"...Fifty students on reading Sportside warn
me that my days at Carolina are numbered. one telling me that I am
guilty of insubordination. See Professor Babcock an(l find him
smiling and our friendship not so strained.
October 8--I write a very orthodox sports column and two of my
three readers bawl me out for getting soft. Carolina meets (lefea'.
at hands of Georgia Bulldogs, yours truly getting his taste at big
time journalism, writing a play by play account for the Atlanta
Journal. 'Triblle predicts that I will write as the athletic del)art
ient pleases now.
October 15-I mix a little athletic publicity with expository writ
ing and boost I)ick Little for All-America in my column then I
warn readers (now increased to four) against journalistic junk l)e(1
dled in this sheet by typewriter punchers Williams and Tribble.
Also commended Gamnecocks for their fine showing against Ala
bamna which in time grew up to be spanked in the Rose Bowl by
California. The Gamecock shifts masthead... Petoskeymen )re
pare to swamp Georgia frosh. ..My mail begins to grow and erudites
from all corners of the Palmetto State including Fountain Inn and
Conway tell me a thing or two... My mother writes and tells me she
enjoys the column.
October 21-I tell peol)le (five of them) that Clemson-Carolina
will he the game of the year then grow philosophical and humor
ous, blaming it on something I ate. Clemson swamps Carolina while
seventy newspapermlen sit in the )reSs box enioying h am sandwiches
handed out by the USC Athletic Publicity Service. Gamecocks
and journalists go almost dry as the soda boy loses his way to the'
broadcasting booth. The Gamecock uses red ink on the front page
and moves banner down to midship.
Nocember 5-I head my column-Thoughts of a bewildered col
umnnist-involve James Joyce and Hal Tribble; use some poor 1)11115
and end the column by returning to the uin-conscious by nominat
ing Ed Clary and Man Mountain Granoff for All-State honors.
Citadel and Carolina give a non-Shakespearean version of the
"Twelfth Man"...My brother wrote and told mc he enjoyed the
column. .. The Gamecock becomes :m streanlined newspaper with a
horse and buggy sportS column...The Gamecork headline writers
become )lagled by na mes of professors Stephan and 1 Woods.
.orem,ber 12--I write my column un(ler protest. using some Iem
ingway dialogue to tell business manager (in person) that you
couldn't hide a circus flea on the sports page. So after throwing
out most of the sports copy in favor of the Coca-Cola bottling coi
pany, I sit dlown at the typewriter and clear up the mystery of who
started the booming of D)ick Little for All-America honors. The
confessors being D)inky Williams and muyself-T1he USC Athletic
Publicity Service. . .Ganmecocks follow lead of cotton and hit slide.
Tribbie puts a black border around his colunm and "Italics" comes
to an endl. Committee of one offers thousand dollar rewardl for
the finding and return of The Gamecock banner. . .Speculumn Vitae,
according to one of imy six readers contains moure sport news than
Sportside.
Norember 10-I get pretty mad abtout the gridliron situation and
try to say something but find that my colleague Tribble has shouted
loudler andl harsher. Later that day turned to oratory when seven
gridders p)aid Tribble a visit, which fortunmately did not turn out
as dlisastrous as it first ap)peared. Tfops for the (lay or week was
the coining by someone of the pu-Thle Gamuecock gridders now
boasted of several Tr ibble-TIret men. ..Bill McCallister started a
string of unsuccessful p)redictionis.
December 3-I come out for the retention of D)on McCallister and
the entire coaching staff; and find myself very unp)opulair wvith my
seven readlers who think otherwise. Also say something about foot.
ball-big time football-being a Frankenstein. End column with
a scene at Union Station, Greenville in which an inebriate takes
off on our up-state rivals, andl I take off for Asheville-to laugh
P~aul League gets his first by-line. Sport page is honored with a
Rouislin poem entitled, "Shadows In Space". . .Circulation hits sea
sonal snag; my readers number five, including my mother.
December 10-Begin like Shakespeare by stealing with modifica
tion a good line fronm Romeo and Juliet and e'.(l column by imiUtt
in g Joyce and T.rible. Finally release scoop on the big apple angk
of the tragedy at Rockingham. By reason of Editor Williams find
ing some junk I threw in the basket I become an author of a vig
nette, entitled "Night Over Brooklyn."
D)ecember 17-I become indlignant (my turn) albout the board ol
trustees' action in firing Pauley and Stammnan and retaining only
McCallister... Frank Patrick is announced as the newv backfield
coach... Jack Lyon wins most valuable player award. The Game
cock feature page pr-ints second1 vignette, this one entitled "Todlay Is
Tuesday"... The Gamecock is circulated as an extra and edition is
guarded by a patrol of armed police, Editor Williams expecting in
terference fromi tihe gridiron warriors. All goes q uiet except for noist
comning from garr-ulous law students at studoent bdy meeting.
Januar'y 7-I wr-ite junk that keeps this column from taking ai
blank pallid color and precede it with a welcome to Rex Enright,
And turn over my typewriter, copy paper arid p)ointless pencil tc
Paul Barrett, who, with the aid of Coit Hendley, Ed McGrath, and
Paul "Scoop" Le~ague, wvill probably bring thte sp)orts section to par
with the rest of the sheet. As the curtain comes dlown I find my
self sandeing dely bnath a ndba.~
BIRDS OPEN I
WITH BLUE, D
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Schooled in gridiron principles by the great Knute Rockne, ]
versity of Georgia and the University of North Carolina, will intrc
Southern Conference. Last week Enright accepted a four year
lister at the University.
GOOD REPUTATION
FOLLOWS ENRIGHT
With Rex Enright in for D)on Mc- ta nih,(e nih
Callister and the familiar alumni howvl cah srcgie s
still ringing, this years edition of the csflmno.'hs fu
annual Carolina headache is completed. hma ot aoiake
The student affairs committee an- goI.H rdcda er
nouncedI last week that Enright had 'a,asvriybsealco
accepted a four year contract at a sal- bcfedcah(ucso
ary of $5,500 per year. He was ex-Thms) islgtwsi
pected to name his assistants somebuhlyviteotefatt
time this wveek. Ted Petoskey, fresh-ansitatthsherso
man football and varsity basketball bigbte n~'.
coach under the old regime wvill re-AnOeTmrothAt
:i'aui.naadsreern toE
Numerous sports writers in the Crln:"i osit o
south speak for the abilities of thisstusaSohCrlias
popular coach. Enright is 35 yearssaesthtwihasc
of age, just about 6 feet tall, andatGog. Thrisi
weighs over 200 pounds. In his col- areeta owa h
lege (lays he was a regular fullbackpoiysale,a(hwits
on the Notre Dame team (1925-26). ndot nyoetigf
As a result of his training tunder themiythtSuhCrln
immortal Knute Rockne, lhe will use CesnadFra vr
the Notre Dame system here next fall. ~i oto h te a
Coach Enright's first assignment af-"Taisnteytod
ter graduation was as freshnman coach Ergt~ilcryfn q
at North Carolina under Chuck Rol-thjo,leiancomi
lins. Here lhe took over freshman bl a.Ad~hl t~i
basketball also and stayed for four sml atrt fets
years. In 1931 lhe wvent to the Uni-pettrsfmainoofe
versity of Georgia as backfield coach lencsay o a
for Hiarry Mehre. Varsity basketballGaeostopycorf
was his after '32 and in his first seasonsoaysucsflotbl
won the Southeastern Conference JtBoc
championship. Enright wvent this year
with the same tide that swept away Mr.onanucetot
Mehre.Mr.etolstaetlrcl
Says Wade Ison, Charlotte News,presvymuhIfond
concerning ~ ~ ~ ~ ha Enright,"e tb adi oMs ona he Enrigt
himat. No.t Caroina new6
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2ex Enright, former backfield coach at the Uni
duce the Notre Dame system of play to the
contract as head coach to succeed Don McCal
GOLF CANDIDATES
ASKED TO MEET
All students interested in trying
out for the University golf team
are asked to meet in the lobby of'
Carolina the Student Union Building at 2
te a suc p. mn. today.
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ON
URDAY
JENKINS AND
WILLIAMS LEAD
BIRD MITTMEN
The boxing season at Carolina will
open tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in
the University Field House when Co.
captains Rex Williams and Frank Jen.
kins and company tangle mitts with
Duke University fighters.
The night's card will consist of eight
fights of three rounds each in which
the Duke maulers will match man for
man the Carolina stalwarts.
Coach Frank DeMars this year has
a bountiful supply of material from
which to choose his fighters and every
division has a first class boxer in it.
Especially in the heavy weight class
are prospects very bright since Dick
Baxter an "up and at 'em" fighter is
to hold this job down.
Three men, Frank Sossaman, Jim
Polatti, and Fritz Turner, are battling
it out for the light heavyweight po
sition. However, Polatti, who fought
on last year's team, will probably be
Coach DeMars' choice to fight.
Rex Williams has the 169 pound
class assignment sewed up. Rex has
been playing football all fall and is
in superb condition for the Duke
fighter.
In the welterweight division a hard
swinging guy, Jerry Hughes. holds
sway. Hughes is the aggressive type
fighter with the never say die spirit
and confidence to spare. Hughes also,
is a football man.
Veteran Lou Carleo, in the 139
pound weight is being given a close
run for his position by sophomore
Bob McCrady, but Carleo is almost a
certainty to don the mittens in the
opening match.
Fighting featherweight will be
Frank Jenkins, who last year was
Southern Conference bantamweight
champion and national intercollegiate
finalist. Jenkins, who began fighting
as a kid, is pointing toward another
The bantamweight position is the
question mark on the team at present.
Gilbert Colina, who was counted on to
fight in this division, has not scaled
down to the proper weight at present
writing, although Colina himself is
confident that he will make it. Cal
cock, another man who is training in
this division, is sick and may not be
able to fight should Colina fail to make
the weight.
Captain To Be
Chosen At Banquet
The captain of the 1937 University
of South Carolina varsity football
team will be chosen at a banquet to
be given by the South Carolina Boos
ters Club next week in honor of the
rew coach. Rex Enright. Members
of the varsity freshman and "B" squad
football teams, boxing and basketball
teams, athletic advisory board, and
trustee athletic committee will he in.
vitedl to attend the banquet as well as
P'res. J. Rion McKissick and Athletic
D)irector. \V. H. Harth.
TIhis banquet is held annually and
is being put on by a committee headed
by Manning Evans
TG IT!
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